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Two ORFE Graduate Students receive SEAS Award for Excellence
Oct. 3, 2024

ORFE graduate students Claire Zeng and Jiawei Ge received a SEAS Award for Excellence. This annual award recognizes advanced graduate students in SEAS who have performed at the highest levels as…

Jianqing Fan honored with the 2025 Wald Memorial Award and Lectures
Sept. 20, 2024

ORFE Frederick L. Moore Professor in Finance, Jianqing Fan, has been invited to deliver the 2025 Wald Memorial Award and Lectures.  Given by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), these named lectures are the highest academic honor bestowed by IMS. 

The planned topics of his two Wald Memorial Lectures are “Neural Causal…

ORFE Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi awarded 2024 Egon Balas Prize
Sept. 12, 2024

The INFORMS Optimization Society 2024 Egon Balas Prize is awarded to Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi for his “deep and broad contributions in mathematical optimization”. 

“Dr. Ahmadi has made deep and broad contributions in mathematical…

ORFE Professors Receive Commendation for Outstanding Teaching
Aug. 27, 2024

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has recognized several ORFE faculty for their outstanding teaching during the fall of 2023.  Professors Amir Ali Ahmadi, Jianqing Fan, Jason Klusowski, and Michael Sotiropoulos received…

Bartolomeo Stellato’s OSQP solver receives Beale — Orchard-Hays Prize
Aug. 1, 2024

The Mathematical Optimization Society has awarded the Beale — Orchard-Hays Prize  to ORFE Professor Stellato and his co-authors for their work in creating the OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic Programs. The Beale — Orchard-Hays Prize, awarded…

Princeton Workshop on Optimization, Learning, and Control
July 19, 2024

In June, the Princeton Workshop on Optimization, Learning, and Control, led by Professor Bartolomeo Stellato, welcomed students and professors from all over the world. This two-day event brought together researchers working in optimization, machine learning, and control. Along with 10 talks given by…

Congratulations Graduates
June 7, 2024

This year ORFE celebrates seven graduate students who have successfully defended their Ph.D.’s.  See the details on their impressive job placements, advisors and thesis titles.   

ORFE Prize Winners
May 31, 2024

On Monday, May 27th The Great ORFE Class of 2024 celebrated Class Day.  Thirteen students were awarded prizes from eight prize categories.  A list of winners and their thesis titles can be found on the Undergraduate Awards page

 

The Great ORFE Class of 2024
May 31, 2024

Congratulations to the Great ORFE Class of 2024! They continued the ORFE tradition of celebrating their senior thesis turn-in by jumping in the fountain. Their formal Sherrerd Hall photo was taken during senior thesis presentations.

 
ORFE graduate student Irina Wang awarded the Wallace Fellowship
May 20, 2024

Irina Wang has received the Wallace Memorial Fellowship from Princeton University Graduate School for the 2024-25 academic year.  This honorific fellowship, founded in 1930 by the bequest of Bonnie Wallace LeClear, is the highest award conferrable to graduate students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. 

Irina’s…

ORFE graduate student Yihong Gu awarded Procter Fellowship
May 20, 2024

Yihong Gu has received the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship from the Princeton University Graduate School for the 2024-25 academic year.  Established in 1912, this honorific fellowship recognizes outstanding performance and professional promise.

Yihong is advised by Professor Jianqing Fan who praises the depth and…

ORFE Assistant Professor Stellato wins Howard B. Wentz, Jr., Junior Faculty Award
May 17, 2024

Professor Bartolomeo Stellato has received the Howard B. Wentz, Jr., Junior Faculty Award, given by the School of Engineering and Applied Science.  This award was established to attract and retain the most talented junior faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.  

Professor Stellato will use this award…

Student-run Engineering Council presents two Excellence in Teaching Awards in ORFE
April 15, 2024

ORFE Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi and ORFE graduate student Ben Budway were honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Fall 2023 semester. These awards, which were established by the student-run Engineering…

Three ORFE Professors Receive SEAS Grants for Their Research
March 18, 2024

ORFE Professors Boris Hanin, Jason Klusowski and Bartolomeo Stellato each received a grant from the School of Engineering and Applied Science to support their research. 

Professors Hanin and Klusowski received SEAS Innovation Grants, which are intended to foster their research and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations with SEAS…

Assistant Professor Hanin Named 2024 Sloan Fellow
Feb. 27, 2024

ORFE Assistant Professor Boris Hanin was awarded a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards these fellowships to early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific…

Bartolomeo Stellato elected INFORMS Optimization Society Officer
Jan. 3, 2024

ORFE Assistant Professor Bartolomeo Stellato has been selected as the INFORMS Optimization Society vice-chair for Computational Optimization and Software.  In this position, Prof. Stellato will lead efforts to boost visibility of computational optimization in and beyond INFORMS; foster collaborations between research software engineers and…

Professor Kornhauser’s new book on driverless mobility
Dec. 13, 2023

A new book titled “The Real Case for Driverless Mobility”, co-authored by ORFE Professor Alain Kornhauser *71 and Michael Sena ‘69, is the result of years of research and industry experience and “explores solutions for providing mobility for the unserved and underserved, including those who cannot drive themselves, cannot afford existing…

Two ORFE Graduate Students Receive SEAS Award for Excellence
Nov. 21, 2023

ORFE graduate students Yihong Gu and Irina Wang received a SEAS Award for Excellence.  This annual award recognizes advanced graduate students in SEAS who have performed at the highest levels as scholars and…

8th Princeton Day of Statistics
Nov. 13, 2023

On November 2 – 3rd, the 8th Princeton Day of Statistics took place at Princeton University.  This biennial workshop brings together top researchers from around the country who work at the frontiers of statistics, machine learning and data science. 

Jianqing Fan elected to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Nov. 10, 2023

The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, a Royal Scientific Society founded in 1772, has elected ORFE Professor Jianqing Fan as a Foreign Member of the Class of Natural Sciences for his fundamental contributions to nonparametric modeling, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, data science, and financial economics.